Even the children present, who don’t entirely follow the conversation, somehow understand that someone in the room has admitted to something deeply shameful. The corrosive power becomes weaker and weaker with every dissolved Bachelor and Bachelorette engagement. For others, it’s about indulging those voyeuristic urges and spying on the neighbours during the most intimate moments of their lives. This is not to offer a defence of rabid trash-TV fandom. Hoping to cut the tension, you feel you have no choice but to make your hand into a fist and slowly, sheepishly insert it into your mouth.

Source: National Post May 27, 2016 11:11 UTC